Police asked the public to keep an eye out for Amia Walker, who got off her school bus but didn't make it home.

"They came and questioned my little girl and they're, like, best friends, so she told her, 'Yes, she got off the bus, she came down the street, then she stood by her neighbor's car, and that's the last that we seen her,'" said neighbor Amanda Lane.

Lane said Amia usually comes to her house after school, but she didn't on Wednesday.

Investigators later got a call from a neighbor who said Amia was with her. She said no one was home when she got off the bus from school.

The neighbor said she took Amia with her to run errands and tried to contact her mother, but she couldn't reach her.

Lane said she's just relieved that Amia was found safe.

"I'm ecstatic to see how many people showed up to look for her, and my daughter did a great job giving a report to the police," Lane said. "So she did really good."

Police said they arrested the girl's mother on suspicion of child endangerment and obstruction of justice because she wasn't up front with them about where she was when she reported her daughter's disappearance. Police said Amia is safe and is in protective custody.